Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Just a quick heads up on a series of talks coming to Shrewsbury at the end of January, run by the BMC. If you're interested in hill walking then this might be of interest to you. Tickets are currently available in the shop at £5.00 for BMC memebers and £7.00 ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
We've recently added a couple of new walking poles to the online shop section of the website.
Pacerpoles is a British company who have really made a splash with these poles in the last couple of years. They have molded thermoplastic-rubber grips which are acutely angled for each hand so that ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
High Sports has recently taken on Sam Robson as part of the in store team. Sam is a strong fell runner who is also making good progress as a climber. He's recently had some great results on the local running scene with a 21st place finish in the Breidden Race ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
The 40th Longmynd Hike took place over the 6th and 7th of October this year. The Longmynd Staff was won by Andrew Davies (7:51) with Gill Harris winning the Ladies Trophy (10:01). High Sport's Chris Roberts completed the course in a leasurely 20:55 and then proceeded to spend the next ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Salomon introduced the Salomon Speed Cross 2 six months or so ago, and since then it has established itself as a brilliant piece of kit. It truely is an awesome shoe and is one of our best sellers in the shop at the moment. Here's what Salomon had to say ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
The High Sports lecture season kicked off last night with a talk from Tim Emmett. He covered a wide variety of his crazy activities including BASE jumping, climbing and mountaineering. Everyone I spoke to thoroughly enjoyed the night and Tim seemed to have a pretty good time himself too - ...
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